Batched Cocktail Recipes Negroni Cosmopolitan Jamie Oliver Rich Hunt

Hello lovely people at Drinks Tube. It's Mr. Oliver here. It's a lovely day. I'm on a rooftop and we are about to make some cocktails. But not your everyday cocktails because we're batch making cocktails. To help me do it is only one of the best barmen that I know. The lovely Rich is here. We want to know about batch making cocktails. Why should these guys care about it? What's good about it? A number of reasons really. It's very convenient to be able to have all this stuff pre-made. You can focus more on, you know, hosting a party. It's kind of portable. You can take stuff with you. You can take a bottle to the park, to the beach, whatever you're choosing to do this summer. And it's just great for consistency as well. You know you're going to get the same drink every single time. So we're doing two classic cocktails. What are we doing first? First one we're going to do is the Negroni. A classic Italian aperitif. Really simple. It is sweet vermouth, dry gin and a bitter Italian liqueur in equal parts. Normally stirred down on the rocks but we're just going to use a very large measure and just scale it up. Okay, so it could be like a cup of tea mug, it could be a coffee mug, it could be a glass. Quite honestly, if it's exactly the same and it's all proportionate, it doesn't really matter. Brilliant. This is 250ml so it's good for about 10 drinks in this recipe. So you've got some water there. So you're basically compensating for stirring this Negroni over ice. Exactly. That's not going to happen. Exactly. So you're putting that in now. And presumably you can kind of taste it and check it. For sure. I'd always recommend, always taste as you go. For sure. About 20% water will generate it. Obviously remember it's not cold enough yet. So you are going to lose a little bit of that alcohol burn when you chill it a bit. Also, the Negroni also has that lovely orangey flavour you get from an orange zest or an orange chunk as well. And that's something we don't want to lose. So the thing I do when doing this is literally just to cut a couple of orange zests and then drop them in, stir them around and just let them sit for a few minutes before straining them out again. So we have a batch of Negroni. Then what next in the story? Well, we need to put it into a functional vessel of some sort. Something like this is great. Nice. So that's all that done. We're just going to put that in the fridge. Leave it for about half an hour before it's nice and cold and give it a taste. Brilliant. What's next? Next we're going to do another classic drink which has got some citrus juice in it. We're going to be making a Cosmopolitan. Nice. Alright, so this is good for the day? This is perfect for the day. If you know that you're going to be drinking this later on in the afternoon, say you get a call in the morning from your mates. And you want to do something a little bit fancy. Nice. Cosmopolitan in a cocktail glass in the park. That's pretty cool. It's going to be a paper cup though, isn't it? Let's be honest. Unless it's a really posh one. It would be. We're using 200 millilitres of lime juice. So lime juice and then we need to balance that with the sweetness in the Cosmopolitan. That is the triple sec, the orange cure. 250 millilitres of that. There we are. Vodka for 10 people, so we're using quite a bit. We're using 450 millilitres. Nice. And then it is cranberry juice. Yeah. Which is 300 mil, so I'm going to do 250 millilitres. Basically all that's in the bottle because I measured it. You need to add some water to it again. For that kind of dilution that you'd get? Exactly. Okay. About 15 to 20 odd percent. Going for it. Nice. Simple as that. You literally just need to put it back in a bottle. I think it's time to show these guys. Come down on the floor. I know it's not very glamorous. Come down here. This we love, and that's what it's all about. What one do you want to do first, big boy? Shall we do a Negroni? Beautiful. Cheers. Bingo, bango, bongo. I mean, it's clever, right? Love it. Okay. Let's try the Cosmo, shall we? Yes, let's do the Cosmo. It's the flamed orange zest. Ah. Ready? Well, that's absolutely beautiful, Rich. Cheers. And if you want to learn how to make the orange zest, click in the link up here for the one minute tip on flaming zests. Beautiful cocktail, batch made, lots of inspiration, lots of ideas. Keep the comments coming in, guys. Don't forget, if you haven't subscribed to the Lovely Drinks Tube, it's free and it's lovely. Just hit the link somewhere up there in the world of boxes. So, there you go, guys, from me and Richie. Lots of love. It's been emotional. Take care.